TCM Schedule for Thurs, Sept 4, 2025: NY Stories / Is it Noir? / Beasts
DAYTIME (EST)
7:45 AM | The Mayor of 44th Street (1942)
A dance-band manager has to cope with hooligans trying to get into the act.
Dir: Alfred E. Green Cast: George Murphy, Anne Shirley, William Gargan
9:15 AM | No Time for Comedy (1940)
A wealthy culture vulture tries to steal a playwright from his actress wife.
Dir: William Keighley | Cast: James Stewart, Rosalind Russell, Charles Ruggles
11:00 AM | Stage Struck (1958)
A young actress makes all the wrong moves trying to break in on Broadway.
Dir: Sidney Lumet | Cast: Henry Fonda, Susan Strasberg, Joan Greenwood
12:45 PM | The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1974)
A suddenly unemployed executive and his understanding wife must adapt to their new life.
Dir: Melvin Frank | Cast: Jack Lemmon, Elizabeth Wilson, Anne Bancroft
2:30 PM | Sunday in New York (1963)
A young woman considers premarital sex while traveling to visit her womanizing brother in NYC.
Dir: Peter Tewksbury | Cast: Rod Taylor, Jane Fonda, Cliff Robertson
4:30 PM | Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
Boyhood friends grow up on opposite sides of the law.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke | Cast: Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy
6:15 PM | My Favorite Year (1982)
A flamboyant star throws a TV comedy show into chaos.
Dir: Richard Benjamin | Cast: Peter O'Toole, Mark Linn-baker, Jessica Harper
PRIME TIME, LATE NIGHT, EARLY MORNING
8:00 PM | Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
A bank clerk attempts to protect his crippled wife and family.
Dir: Charles Chaplin | Cast: Charles Chaplin, Mady Correll, Allison Roddan
10:15 PM | Blood on the Moon (1948)
A gunslinger hired to drive off a rancher falls in love with the man's daughter.
Dir: Robert Wise | Cast: Robert Mitchum, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Preston
12:00 AM | Unfaithfully Yours (1948)
A famous conductor, jealous of his wife's alleged infidelities, contemplates revenge.
Dir: Preston Sturges | Cast: Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Rudy Vallee
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2:00 AM | The Beast with Five Fingers (1946)
After a famous pianist's murder, his hand returns to wreak vengeance.
Dir: Robert Florey | Cast: Robert Alda, Andrea King, Peter Lorre
3:45 AM | The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
Nuclear tests set a dormant prehistoric monster on a path of destruction.
Dir: Eugène Lourié | Cast: Paul Christian, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway
5:15 AM | The Beast of the City (1932)
A police captain leads the fight against a vicious gangland chief.
Dir: Charles Brabin | Cast: Walter Huston, Jean Harlow, Wallace Ford